PIN

PIN researchers at Umeå University and Umeå School of Business and Economics has a well-established position in research on project management, business development, and entrepreneurship. Recent industrial and organizational developments such as shorter product life cycles, more demanding customers asking for complex system deliveries, increased globalization and a continuous growth of the professional services sector indicate that innovation processes to an increasing extent take place in inter-organizational networks of more or less well-defined projects.

PIN researchers answers well to these practical challenges as research on projects as well as on network dynamics often focus on innovation as an important outcome of both the project organization and of the network organization.

PIN researchers studies business networks and innovation as a force towards business development and on the potential conflicts arising from simultaneous cooperation and competition in the business network.

PIN researchers integrates research from various fields such as innovation, management, project management and entrepreneurship.